Welcome to my Physics 335-Intermediate Lab web page.  Listed below are the experiments that I have completed or I am in the process of doing this semester.  Click on the individual experiment links to view the progress my partner and I have made, the results of our toil, and the conclusions that we can draw from those results..

 

bulletResonant Frequencies of Rigid Rods
bulletAn investigation into the relationship between a vibrating rod with a fixed end and other known oscillators.
bulletInvestigation of a Helium-Neon Laser
bulletA look at the properties of a stimulated-emission gas laser.  You may wish to compare this to the properties of a diode laser.  Look here.
bulletCO2 Laser
bulletAn investigation of the properties of a Carbon Dioxide laser's output as well as the stimulation of gasses placed in the beam.
bulletChaos Pendulum
bulletA damped, driven physical pendulum exhibits chaotic behaviour due to non-linear dynamics.  Check out LRC chaos here.
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Sodium Raman Scattering
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Using a dye laser pumped by a Nd:YAG laser sodium atoms at ~500K in a heat pipe were excited to multiple energy states through two photon absorption.  The atoms then emit photons through a variety of transitions, which we studied.

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Final Project: Heat Pipe Spectroscopy

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A compilation.
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The work done by Tim and Emmett with the Nd:YAG laser, dye laser, and a Cesium heat pipe.

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The work Phil and I did using the Nd:YAG laser, dye laser, and a Sodium heat pipe.

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More work I did individually with the Sodium.

 

 

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